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AllyO and iCIMS announced an integration partnership that they say will optimize recruiting processes and improve hiring outcomes. The platform-to-platform integration between AllyO and iCIMS’s ATS will move candidates more easily and quickly through the talent acquisition process, the companies said. That should improves recruiters’ productivity and help ensure a positive candidate...
Our weekly roundup of deals, product announcements and other HR technology news. Namely announced a partnership with SignalFx, which monitors and provides analytics for cloud infrastructures. The partnership will optimize system performance and provide engineering resources to help maintain performance in processing payroll, benefits, time management and other HR transactions. Dice...
Indeed signed an agreement to acquire UK-based ClickIQ, an automated job-advertising platform. ClickIQ’s technology manages, tracks and optimizes the performance of enterprise recruitment advertising as a way to focus advertising spend in real time. The acquisition will strengthen Indeed’s ability to deliver aligned candidates, said Maggie Hulce, Indeed’s senior vice president of sales strategy....
SMB recruiting platform provider JazzHR will build an integration allowing users to view pre-hire assessment results from Wonderlic’s Wonscore product. Wonscore’s assessments evaluate candidates for cognitive ability, motivation and personality. The companies said reviewing results without leaving JazzHR will save time and help talent acquisition teams increase the quality of...
A minority of technology CEOs plan to develop their workforce, says a report from KPMG. Given Amazon’s plans to upskill a third of its workers over the next six years, industry HR leaders have an opportunity to refocus leadership’s attention and prepare their organizations to integrate advanced systems. According to...
Amazon will spend more than $700 million to upskill a third of its American workforce. The company said its goal is to help employees move into new jobs—both technical and non-technical—across nearly all of its operations. The “Upskilling 2025” effort will create programs for employees of all professional backgrounds, at all of...
Corporate executives claim to understand the critical role performance management and workforce development play in improving their company’s retention efforts. However, middle and front-line managers say their leaders aren’t backing up those words with real action, and are generally out of touch with what’s going on in their employees’ real world. Research by Betterworks, a...
Cornerstone OnDemand and Beamery are nearly finished creating an API integration that will allow their platforms to sync candidate and vacancy data. As a result, Cornerstone said, joint customers will be able to manage talent acquisition from sourcing to hire, as well as create personalized candidate experience. The integration will help with talent rediscovery,...
Workday gave partners a “sneak peek” of a new blockchain-powered credentialing platform at Workday Altitude, its partners and services conference. The company has also begun alpha testing the service. In a blog post, Senior Vice President Jon Ruggiero said the effort, which he didn’t name, has been driven by three factors: the...
Talent platform provider Eightfold launched RPA Talent Connect, a tool that can integrate any talent management system with its Talent Intelligence Platform. The company claims it’s now the first in its space that’s not limited by enterprise customers’ legacy systems. Without requiring an API, RPA Talent Connect syncs the Talent Intelligence...